This t-shirt bag is easy-breezy crafting...

Project Seventeen is an awesome recycled t-shirt shopping bag. This project has quickly become our personal favorite, since it combines actual recycling with using our recycled product.

Here's what you'll need to complete this project:

• old t-shirt
• scissors
• iron
• hem tape

Start by cutting out the neck band of your t-shirt.

Then, cut the sleeves off.

This is what it looks like.

Iron your shirt flat and fold in the bottom hem.

Measure your hem tape and place it inside the fold.

Iron over the the hem tape, on both sides, until it adheres.

Here are three of our t-shirt bags!

We tested these with 5 cans and a jar to determine their durability and they passed!!

Here's the breakdown of what we spent:

• T-shirt (out of our closets) - free (note if you have to buy one, check garage sales, secondhand stores or clearance)
• Iron & Scissors - household items
• Hem tape (Walmart, $2.47 roll, does approximately 30 shirts) - $.10
  
  
  Total per bag: $.10-$.25!!
  
  
  This project is, in a word, fabulous. It's cheap, easy and is something absolutely everyone can use. It's also really fun and makes great gift wrap! When you pull out all your fall clothes, dig out all those t-shirts that are too big, too small or too not you, and make bags to use and to give.